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Faster Than A Shark: April 2007
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Faster Than A Shark. Fanfare for the Elitist Sports Fan - Imagine Copland Playing as you read this. Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Sosa Knows the Score. Quitting on his team (he left Wrigley field on the last day of a lost 2004 season), corking his bat (he said he accidently used his special batting practice model), and getting hilariously, metaphorically hit in the head near the end of his Cubs career. Sosa's comeback has also prompted a pile of unfunny print. It is undisputable, however, that. I am a partisan.
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Faster Than A Shark: December 2006
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Faster Than A Shark. Fanfare for the Elitist Sports Fan - Imagine Copland Playing as you read this. Thursday, December 21, 2006. It hurts me to have to lead with this picture. Which is the second most overblown. Basketball players should be taller than actors. He is somehow, both a scrappy undersized underdog and a ballhogging malcontent thug, a high-flying dunking sensation and a non-passing point guard wrestling in the stands. This season we've seen him block Yao Ming. Despite an infamous fourteen miss...
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Faster Than A Shark: September 2006
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Faster Than A Shark. Fanfare for the Elitist Sports Fan - Imagine Copland Playing as you read this. Saturday, September 30, 2006. The sword of Damocles. We all knew it was coming. Over the first 4 weeks of the season, the team had played high school programs and girl scout troops. There is nothing to be learned about a program's strength playing BU, UNC, Duke and Cincinnati. It's a shame the team had to fall so hard against the first. Posted by Craig at 10:11 PM. Thursday, September 28, 2006. The Astros ...
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Faster Than A Shark: August 2007
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Faster Than A Shark. Fanfare for the Elitist Sports Fan - Imagine Copland Playing as you read this. Sunday, August 19, 2007. Tomorrow : Manchester City v. Manchester United; Today, Mark E. Smith. Nor was I inspired by the mid-table Cleveland-like Tottenham, Newcastle, or Everton, teams that would always be slightly short of major success. It was Manchester City that I chose to support, for several reasons, one Elvis-related. Manchester is known for two things - Manchester United. Or Mark E. Smith. In tha...
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Faster Than A Shark: August 2006
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Faster Than A Shark. Fanfare for the Elitist Sports Fan - Imagine Copland Playing as you read this. Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Every season several writers break out the old standby article to get themselves through the doldrums of the late summer: the all overpaid/underpaid team. Here's a fairly typical example. Now overall this isn't a terrible column as such things go, but the issue I have is with these columns in general - the underpaid portion is always. So, after all that, I get to my original poi...
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Faster Than A Shark: January 2007
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Faster Than A Shark. Fanfare for the Elitist Sports Fan - Imagine Copland Playing as you read this. Wednesday, January 31, 2007. Guest Post by Butter Harrison. Recently, I stumbled into a relationship with a woman who is a football fan. You can imagine how this would be troubling to me. I know nothing about football. In fact, I have it on good authority that even some of the name contributors. To this blog know very little. About the ins and outs of the sport. How can I compete in a market like that?
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Faster Than A Shark: March 2007
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Faster Than A Shark. Fanfare for the Elitist Sports Fan - Imagine Copland Playing as you read this. Thursday, March 15, 2007. More Adventures in Diction. This is ESPN broadcaster Jimmy Dykes, with an aura about him; Jimmy Dykes would like to apologize for his odor. It seems Mr. Dykes has some things he'd like to say to the NIT Selection Committee. Overheard during the waning moments of ESPN2's telecast of the first-round matchup between Georgia and Fresno State:. Posted by Whisk E. Bear at 2:00 PM.
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Faster Than A Shark: February 2007
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Faster Than A Shark. Fanfare for the Elitist Sports Fan - Imagine Copland Playing as you read this. Thursday, February 08, 2007. John Amaechi. Gay. According to the Boston Celtics, that's Gay-OK. Just, uh, make sure you let Al Jefferson know to keep both hands on the soap. Jefferson was uncertain about how teammates and fans would react if a current player came out. Amaechi, like those in U.S. team sports before him, didn’t do so until after his retirement. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Faster Than A Shark: October 2006
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Faster Than A Shark. Fanfare for the Elitist Sports Fan - Imagine Copland Playing as you read this. Friday, October 27, 2006. That Olde Tyme Feeling". Or, "A Night In Maroon", in which our intrepid chronicler of all things trivial and pedantic in sports discusses the best Hokie win in two years, in prose form. The game began, as most games do, with the tailgate, that. Of alcohol in them? Well, I'll mention it again. Now some may complain about this, and I understand that, but I for one thought they looke...
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